Continuing to Discover New Ways to Create

After hearing my critique group member Jennifer's exuberant report on conferences she attended  this year and the tidbits she keeps sharing, I've decided I need to mark my calendar for the 2011 WW conference next August.  I attended it two years ago for the first time and found it to be one of the best.  When I think that I can attend this conference and save on airfare, lodging, etc. it just makes so much sense.

Another great conference, of course, is the SCBWI-OR spring converence right here in town.  We're given so many choices while there; it's good that we can share what we learn from the sessions that we missed.  Now I need to create my own version of Where I'm From thanks to Jennifer.  Perhaps you also would like to give it a try.  If so, go to http://www.heathervogelfrederick.com/ and check it out.

Progress

One follower and two followees (?) - Many more to go.  Still learning to navigate.

Writing/Creating/Discovering

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~ Toni Morrison

Setting up my own blog is a BIG deal for me – so what took me so long?  Well, all I can say is that I had to tear myself away from reading and writing long enough to just do it.  

The idea that I should write my own stories never occurred to me until I attended a Tish Hinojosa concert in Davis, California.  Tish sang some traditional Mexican and Tex-Mex songs that brought back fond memories of my life in the Rio Grande Valley.  She also performed some of her own compositions.  After the concert, I realized that I, too, wanted to explore my own creativity (Thanks, Tish).

I like Toni Morrison's advice and am attempting to follow it.   

 
Estela